Month: October 2021

  • Fun Distraction: Egg Hatches

    What is going to happen when this tiny egg is discovered at a pet shop? Watch as the egg is incubated and hatched. What a fascinating thing to watch this little parakeet hatch and grow! https://youtu.be/Kd2srYijPhc #memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary

  • Fun Distraction: Planet Fervor

    Need some beauty and adventure in your social feed? PlanetFervor has you covered! It provides gorgeous videos of insanely beautiful and exciting travel locations including some daredevil activities you can try while on your adventure. Scroll through and see where you want to travel to next. https://www.instagram.com/planetfervor #memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary

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  • Fun Distraction: Accents

    Meet Erik Singer a dialect coach and his fellow Linguists in this video from Wired about the history behind accents of the English language in North America. What an interesting profession! https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A (21 mins) “Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik and a host of…

  • Reading Workshop on Friday 10/22

    Reading Workshop @  Memorial Library Friday, Oct. 22, 2021 — 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Did you know that all readers encounter challenges when they read? Have you been experiencing any reading challenges this semester? Come join a small group to work through some of these reading challenges together. Attendees will walk away with tools,…

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  • Fun Distraction: Mini MP3 Players

    Remember Hit Clips? Tiny MP3 players from Tiger Electronics that played clips of popular songs from small micro chips that you could clip together as well as to your clothes or backpack? These were popular about 12 years ago in the early 2000s. The nostalgia is overwhelming! Here is an original commercial for this rad…

  • Fun Distraction: Croc Mom

    Watch as sneaky croc cameras from “Spy in the Wild” – BBC capture incredible footage of a mother crocodile’s first moments with her hatchlings on the banks of the Nile River. https://youtu.be/_bVZeOt7bCw See more clips from BBC’s Spy in the Wild – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088t67m/clips #memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary